Drake gave his fans a look behind the scenes with a 100 gig drop of unreleased material, including track demos, photos, and even a BTS video from his “Hotline Bling” sessions.
In the video, the rapper says he previously used the track title as a contact name for his hookup whose phone would be going off constantly.
“We used to be in bed together … and her phone would be blowing up. So I saved her name in my phone as ‘Hotline Bling.’ That’s always been her name on my phone,” he said in the drop. “And I was looking at it today, I was like, ‘Hotline Bling’ is a sick name. That should be an artist name.”
Drizzy continued to say that he gave her a heads-up that he recorded a track named after her phone contact nickname. “I was talking to her today. I was like, ‘Yo, your name, your nickname is such a good title for something.’ And then I just told her today, I was like, you know I did a song called ‘Hotline Bling,’ that’s crazy,” Drake added.
The OVO boss was thinking about inviting Future to join him on “Hotline Bling,” but ultimately decided against it.
